Shooting Times & Country

Get better at game on clays

It’s that time of year when an invitation to shoot rolls into the inbox and stings the average game Shot into confronting the fact they haven’t picked up a gun in something approaching a year. In the age of COVID-19, that might even be two years for some of us, but can a disappointing session missing pitch discs do more harm than good?

Many Guns begin their seasonal migration to their local clay ground as the pink-footed geese begin to split the sky overhead in the early autumn sunshine. The clay ground for some is a place of trepidation as many game Shots are nervous of their lack of match fitness showing for all to see.

They are prepared to grapple with it, though, because the imagined — and it is imagined — scorn of complete strangers pales into insignificance

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